Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids P-80 / F-80 Shooting Star

P-80A
Role	Jet fighter
National origin	United States
Manufacturer	Lockheed Corporation
Designer	Clarence "Kelly" Johnson
First flight	8 January 1944
Introduction	1945
Status	Retired
Primary users	United States Air Force United States Navy
Number built	1,715
Unit cost	US$110,000 in 1945
Variants	Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star
Developed into	Lockheed F-94 Starfire

The Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star is an American fighter jet. It made a few flyovers of Germany in the last weeks of the World War II. After this war it was used in Korean War. From 1948 its designation was changed to F-80 Shooting Star. The United States Air Force was the main operator, but they were also used by Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay.

This aircraft was the basis of the famous training aircraft T-33 T-Bird and of the F-94 Starfire fighter jet.

Images for kids

The original XP-80 prototype Lulu-Belle
XP-80A Gray Ghost in flight
Operational P-80Bs at Langley AFB
TO-1 Shooting Star of VMF-311
F-80Cs of the 8th Fighter-Bomber Group in Korea, 1950
EF-80 prone pilot test aircraft
F-14A/FP-80A reconnaissance aircraft
F-80A test aircraft (s/n 44-85044) with twin 0.5 in (12.7 mm) machine guns in oblique mount, similar to World War II German Schräge Musik, to study the ability to attack Soviet bombers from below
F-80 with Schräge Musik configuration at full elevation
A Peruvian F-80C preserved in a Lima park
Lockheed XP-80 "Lulu-Belle" at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
P-80A on display at the Air Zoo
USAF P-80A of the first production series, bearing a buzz number
F-80C Shooting Star